Christmas is over, so I can start showing off the gifts I made this year. The dark brown mug with sunflowers was my husband's favorite vessel for drinking coffee. Unfortunately, it broke some time ago, and in other mugs the coffee tastes different ;). I remembered that a large brown mug serves as a container (one of many) for my brushes. I took it out, painted sunflowers and gave it to my husband. Now for him coffee tastes better again. :D
This stoneware teapot is quite heavy, so it is mainly used as a decoration. For years it stood on a shelf, decorated by me with some pseudo-folk painting, which over time I liked less and less. As part of my Advent resolutions, I scratched off the painting, took out the old ceramic paints and painted these roses.
I painted this Guardian Angel as a baptism gift for a baby boy.
To use up my supplies, I took out a thin cotton filet from the drawer and decided that it would be suitable for a lace outfit for a bauble. I came up with this idea a year ago, around Christmas. The implementation took place yesterday :).
Long time ago I bought gouaches and tried painting with them for a while. Then they went to the corner of the cabinet with art supplies. The brown pages of the sketchbook motivated me to dig out this painting medium. The paints in most of the tubes were already dried, but I decided to use what was left. I reached for books showing wallpaper and fabric patterns from the early 20th century and, inspired by them, I started painting. How charming are these bouquets of flowers! These are patterns from victorian era. Art Nouveau will be the next art movement and I love it. People need beauty. Probably only the rich could afford elegant wallpapers at the beginning of the last century, but everyone could look at beautiful architecture. Once, while walking around Sopot, in the district of Art Nouveau villas, I wondered what it was like to be able to experience such beauty and elegance every day? Why are people now deprived of beauty in urban spaces? I'm thinking about the new famous museum in the center of Warsaw. Ever since I saw it, while it was still under construction, I felt terrible anger and regret, that another arrogant person is disfiguring our already architecturally damaged capital.
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Chociaż wolę książki papierowe, to jednak coraz częściej podczas różnych prac domowych, czy malowania sięgam po powieści w wersji audio. A potem patrzę na ukończony obrazek i przypominają mi się sceny z odsłuchanych książek.
There are fewer and fewer golden leaves on the trees. My cherry tree outside the window has lost all of them. I saw frost in the garden in the morning. I'm glad I can keep the colors in my sketchbook.
Painting the sea again. This time I used a candle to save the white in places where I wanted to have sea foam.
Some of the pages in my new sketchbook are made of brown paper, resembling wrapping paper. It is not suitable for watercolor paints, but it is suitable for decorative ornaments painted with acrylics.
I splashed paint and then sprinkled water. As soon as the paper dried, I added paint and water again. How many such treatments can a sheet of sketchbook paper endure? I didn't count, but it was a lot.
Nowe maleństwo przyszło na świat w naszej rodzinie, więc uszyłam nową kołderkę.
A new baby was born in our family, so I made a new quilt.
